Originally Posted by
Epstein
Well it should be obvious that it's related to the work you did when the motor was moving chassis.
The front cover does have a few o-rings, but it doesn't sound like you removed that part. The upper cover has no o-rings to be concerned with.
What I think might be happening is that the work you did with the tensioner is causing a leak. A big enough leak would divert all the pressure from the head. Think of a broken sprinkler gushing water, leaving the rest of them dribbling due to low pressure. Check that. In fact, if the head has little to no pressure, you might just run it without the valve cover and look down the upper cover. This might give you an oily shirt / engine bay, though.
I would like to think it is something that I did so I could go back and fix it.
I have run it with the valve cover off, the only oil moving around was the little bit coming off of the chain.
Didn't see anything that was crazy out of place when I was looking around while it was running.
At this point, I'm not sure what to even look for. Everything "seems" fine.
the only work I did was took the valve cover off. took the upper timing cover off. removed old tensioner. bolted on new tensioner, copper rtv the upper cover all the way around. bolted it back on. rtv valve cover, bolted it back on.